The review's executive summary, published on Thursday, said there were "missed opportunities" to help all of the women.

It said although it was difficult to know whether the sexual exploitation could have been predicted for the two girls in care, their background meant it was predictable they would become vulnerable adolescents at risk of abuse.

Wow! Talk about giving a dog a bad name! What predicted this for the other 25 then?

"Had there been earlier, concerted intervention in their lives to address their unmet needs, it is likely that they would have been less vulnerable as adolescents and therefore less likely to be abused," it said.

I can't decide if this is a desperate attempt to focus on something else to draw attention away from the multicultural elephant in the room, or a thinly-veiled threat of what will happen if more resources are not forthcoming.

Or both...

"These conclusions are mirrored in the findings from the multi-agency reviews. There were missed opportunities to assess significant concerns in relation to the other young women and comprehensive assessments were not completed.

Our world class welfare state, ladies and gentlemen...

"When they were completed, the quality of assessments was frequently poor, with little involvement of the young person and their family, and all the relevant agencies."

All we're missing from this is the 'lessons to be learnt' mantra.

Yet I can't help feeling the real lesson to be learnt is being scrupulously avoided at all cost. And that's starting to dawn on others too:

Mohammed Shafiq, director of the Lancashire-based Ramadhan Foundation, a charity working for peaceful harmony between different communities, has said: ‘I think the police are overcautious because they are afraid of being branded racist. These men are criminals and should be treated as criminals — whatever their race.’

In Derby this week, Shokat Lal, chairman of the city’s Pakistani Community Centre in the Normanton area — where many of the girls were taken to seedy flats and then sexually attacked by the gang – spoke out, too: ‘It is important that political correctness or fear of offending any particular group of people does not get in the way of protecting those who are vulnerable.

Can't wait to see how the progressives handle this. Their usual cries of 'racist!' and 'It's not a big problem!' aren't really going to wash, are they?

As Detective Superintendent Debbie Platt of Derbyshire Police said yesterday: ‘We were really shocked with the scale and extent of what we’d uncovered, but this is a very hidden crime.’

Well, yes. Everything's 'hidden' if you studiously look the other way, isn't it?

Sex miseducation and its related policy of dishing out the Morning-After Pill and condoms - something which purports to empower young females, and which is enthusiastically promoted by social services agencies - has an awful lot to answer for.

These animals, and that is what these criminals are, saw their victims as fair game. And yes these acts are racially-motivated. Take note, Jo "you can't be racist towards white people" Brand, the chickens are coming home to roost.

"‘It is important that political correctness or fear of offending any particular group of people does not get in the way of protecting those who are vulnerable."

Brave words, but I am afraid it does very much get in the way. The Religion of Peaceniks (to name one self-interst group with no intention of integrating in any hurry) are given a free pass too often to do what they want.

This from 2008 which is Derby failing to admit - even when told by ethnic group representatives - that they had a problem of child abuse in the form of forced marriage of children not even of marrying age in Britain.

It must be very gratifying for the multi-culti crowd that Derby schoolgirls have been so taken by ethnic diversity, community cohesion and inclusivity that they did not reject being given a good time ('ice cream and nice meals') by lads from the Asian community.

Once again Julia, the right questions begin to emerge. I'm sure now that we get nearly all this woman and child protection stuff wrong. I worked when it really all was swept under the carpet - there's a big mis-match between the abilities of people dealing with this stuff and the complexity of the situations and evidence. Cops and town hall people are generally incompetent and have far too high a self-regard, making it impossible to get them to recognise what is front of their eyes, unless you have personal and rank leveraqe. They are missing all sorts of abuse, mostly on purpose because they don't know how to deal with it, but do know how to hide it. Given the CPS are no better, I guess 'IQ' is not the problem.